I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her.

and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr's side.

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.